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		<title>BOOK REVIEW; “Selected Essays on President Mahinda Rajapaksa” &#8211; Sarvodaya Viswa Lekha Publication  (ISBN 978-955-51312-2-3)</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/20/book-review-%e2%80%9cselected-essays-on-president-mahinda-rajapaksa%e2%80%9d-sarvodaya-viswa-lekha-publication-isbn-978-955-51312-2-3/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Prof John Evans
The book titled “Selected Essays on President Mahinda Rajapaksa” by Dr Levins .T C Rajaratnam has been published by Sarvodaya Viswa Lekha (ISBN 978-955-51312-2-3). The Author has in his acknowledgement stated that the book is a compilation of a collection of articles published in the newspapers and the electronic media. The book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Having aligned with &#8216;bankrupt&#8217; politicians Gen.Fonseka got capsized !</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dr.P.A.Samaraweera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia
Sri Lanka&#8217;s former top Army Officer in a farewell letter to the troops has said, &#8220;&#8230;I want to assure you that I will commit myself to protect democratic freedoms which we are rapidly losing&#8230; I pledge to work to restore human rights, media freedom, social justice, ethnic unity and peaceful co-existience. I will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illusionary Justice: Threats to the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Sri Lanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ira de Silva]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ira de Silva London, Ontario
Professor C. Kananganayakam
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
 
Dear Sir:
 
Panel Discussion at Munk Centre for International Studies on Monday Nov. 16,2009 titled
Illusionary Justice: Threats to the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Sri Lanka
 
I am writing to you because I was informed of your association with the Munk Centre and the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Undisputed Leader of the People – the greatest Patriot of Sri Lanka -The President Mahinda Rajapaksa shall be re-elected for another term!</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/19/the-undisputed-leader-of-the-people-%e2%80%93-the-greatest-patriot-of-sri-lanka-the-president-mahinda-rajapaksa-shall-be-re-elected-for-another-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dr.Levins T C Rajaratnam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam
It is a privilege to pay tribute to the Greatest Patriot of Sri Lanka who saved the Nation from disaster with whom I am well acquainted for several years.
Chapter VII of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Article 30 states:
30. (1) There shall be a President of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first ever Buddhist book in LUGANDA language</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumanananda Premseri 
The Buddhist Maha Vihara Brickfields is pleased to launch its first ever Dhamma publication in Luganda, the language of the people of Uganda, in Africa. This is the 16th language undertaken by the Vihara’s FREE PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM.
 The book is a translation of “How to Practise Buddhism? authored by Ven Dr K Sri Dhammananda. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Tread Lightly on the Earth – religion, the environment and the human future, by C. G. Weeramantry (A Stamford Lake Publication, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[H. L. D. Mahindapala]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Come down to earth, warns Judge Weeramantry
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Part 1
The marked and recurring theme in Judge C. G. Weeramantry’s legal philosophy has been to resurrect and elevate religions and traditional values to the highest level in the global agenda as a guide to the future. He demonstrated his commitment to his principles when, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Tread Lightly on the Earth – religion, the environment and the human future, by C. G. Weeramantry (A Stamford Lake Publication, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/18/book-review-tread-lightly-on-the-earth-%e2%80%93-religion-the-environment-and-the-human-future-by-c-g-weeramantry-a-stamford-lake-publication-2009-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics threaten the environment
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Part II
In his book Tread Lightly on the Earth Judge Weeramantry provides a compelling argument for humanity to rediscover the wisdom of traditional societies that found their happiness in less than in craving for more and more. For how long can 6.5 billion people keep on exploiting the limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HISTORY TEACHES US MANY LESSONS</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/18/history-teaches-us-many-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Forum & Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Lt Col (Retd.) Anil Amarasekera
When I wrote the article ‘United we stand divided we fall’ I could see trouble brewing ahead with an effort by vested interests to divide the nationalistic forces. It is now fast reaching the boiling point with the resignation of General Sarath Fonseka from the post of Chief of Defence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of the book entitled &#8220;THE SEPARATIST CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA Terrorism, ethnicity, Political economy&#8221; By Professor Asoka Bandarage.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Dr Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam
The writer makes a new analysis of the conflict in Sri Lanka, touching on the areas of terrorism, ethnicity, and the political economy.  The Introduction and Chapter 1 indicates the wide approaches to these sensitive areas of study, and comment.  In the past, most of the writers have dwelt with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu as a panellist on Human Rights in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/18/dr-paikiasothy-saravanamuttu-as-a-panellist-on-human-rights-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ASOKA WEERASINGHE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
November 18, 2009
Professor Chelva Kananganayakam
University of Toronto
Toronto
 Dear Professor Chelva Kananganayakam:
Re: MUNK CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Panel Discussion on Illusionary Justice: Threats to the Rule of Law and Human Rights in Sri Lanka on November 16, 2009.
I am not certain why I am writing to you, perhaps may be [...]]]></description>
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